The woman who acted as a stunt double in Free Willy is sharing what it was like working with a killer whale Debi Derryberry recounts in a podcast how she was cast as the stunt double for the the ...

After helping Free Willy taste freedom, Dave Phillips is working to give two other orcas a life outside captivity, Phillips, a director of the International Marine Mammal Project at Earth Island ...

Please join me in speaking up for killer whales Wikie and Keijo," said actor Jason James Richter, who played the young boy in ...

TAKNES BAY, Norway -- Keiko the "Free Willy" whale still doesn't want to be free. It's been about a year since Keiko was freed from his pen -- and swam straight back to human companionship. With the ...

"Whale expert" isn't a career path you hear about very often, but one man online, The Orca Man, has turned himself into just that. He credits his success to one very simple thing: his parents turning ...

In the late 80s and early 90s, kids could not escape orca mania. Credit: Micco Caporale As much as Free Willy was a product of profit-driven whale worship, it was also a widely distributed children’s ...

OSLO, Norway -- For kids, Keiko the killer whale was the charming hero of "Free Willy." For biologists, he was the focus of fierce debate on whether captive animals can be returned to the wild. Keiko, ...

Free Willy actor Jason James Richter urges France to relocate captive killer whales Wikie and Keijo from Marineland ...